Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.
These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others
These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the thin
You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one ano
Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil de
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn
Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the king
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry you
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adult
As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not
“Brothers,” Paul replied, “I was not aware that he was the high priest, for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense dar
But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God
They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remaine
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!
But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from
When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in Dav
and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according
Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity
May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen o